Obituary
6/14/2010 4:52 PM ET
The Washington Post headline: "Joan Hinton, worked on Manhattan Project and became devoted Mao follower, dies at 88." The New York Times headline: "Joan Hinton, 88, Physicist Who Chose China Over ...
6/14/2010 3:40 PM ET
The Washington Post headline: "Joan Hinton, worked on Manhattan Project and became devoted Mao follower, dies at 88." The New York Times headline: "Joan Hinton, 88, Physicist Who Chose China Over ...
2/9/2010 11:22 AM ET
David Stout's obituary for old-line Democratic Rep. John Murtha omitted the congressman's smear of Marines in Iraq, who he accused of killing Iraqi civilians "in cold blood."
7/20/2009 2:37 PM ET
Was longtime CBS newsman Walter Cronkite really "uncomfortable expressing opinion"? He made his liberal views well-known, especially after his retirement from the anchor chair.
4/16/2009 2:44 PM ET
Plus: The Times calls a single group "ultraconservative" 15 times but has only used the term "ultraliberal" to describe any liberal group once.
12/20/2008 11:34 AM ET
Even in marking the death of conservative icon Paul Weyrich (pictured), the Times couldn't resist piling on unflattering labels.
8/6/2008 1:00 AM ET
The great writer's commencement address at Harvard in 1978 was a powerful indictment of elitist liberalism.
7/7/2008 10:59 AM ET
No love for the "right-wing" senator from North Carolina: "Jesse Helms...whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign ...
4/2/2008 11:33 AM ET
Thank goodness for that: "By the time [director Jules Dassin] wrote and directed "Never on Sunday," a comedy about a good-hearted prostitute, the anti-Communist witch hunt in the United States had ...
3/6/2008 3:59 PM ET
The Times finds it necessary to bring up a scientist and global warming skeptic's ties to the tobacco industry in an obituary.
